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You have been banned

That's right, in this scenario you have been banned. And, being that you are a respected member of this community, you are dumbfounded. However, you obey the terms of your punishment and do not post for the traditional 5 days. At the exact time of your scheduled ban-removal, you await impatiently for your privileges to be restored, not that you wanted to enjoy them at that very moment but you just want the satisfaction of knowing you could if you wanted to. But your privileges have not been restored! You wait an extra couple of days even, thinking maybe there was an error, and still you are banned!

You know that there is a thread on the site called "Request Ban-removal Here". You post there, politely asking for your ban to be removed, or for an explanation as to it's extension. And you wait, a full month, with no word from anyone (let's say Jakiao since he seems to take care of those requests). In the rules, Jakiao has outright forbidden PMing him with the request or using any other means to do it. Anyway, you can't PM while you're banned so that's out.

What do you do?

Sorry but I was deadly bored last night and was looking through that very thread and saw a bit of that going on. I thought it would make a good topic really.

I don't know if you can PM when you're banned, but if you can then I'd PM a mod asking what's going wrong.
If there was a legitimate reason for me being continued to be banned, I'd suck it up and deal with it.
If not then I'd make a new temp account to either see what's wrong or to prove I deserve my old one back.

In the rules, Jakiao has outright forbidden PMing him with the request or using any other means to do it.

What do you do?

Sorry but I was deadly bored last night and was looking through that very thread and saw a bit of that going on. I thought it would make a good topic really.

Well he may say one thing in the rules thread, but if you post in the Site Issues/Question he sometimes says that it's okay for members to PM as long as they don't flood his Inbox begging for the username/ban to be change o_O;

What would I do?

I would PM Kaitou Ace. Just because you are banned from posting and entering chat doesn't mean you aren't allowed to PM right? [/not sure never been banned planning to keep it that way] Ace seems to reply to 90% of my PM's so he would at least read the message and check it out.

If that doesn't work, hey just look up any of the admins [Minako, Ace, LPS, Jakiao, Regex] for the most part they have an IM of some sort [MSN, Skype, Yahoo, AIM] just ask them there, o_O

If that doesn't work. Make a temp account and PM them the problem with a non-banned account, assuming your IP address wasn't banned.

Jose: You can't view people's profiles when you're banned either (not even your own! really gay). So you can't see them.

Edit: AAK, I have two accounts. o.o; I think they only told Mavericker that he would be banned because they didn't like him and his filter was a punishment he had to endure. I think they only ban you if you use it to escape a punishment (which you would be doing), but I do agree that making one might be okay in this instance. Was just wondering if people would go this far.

But yeah.. I never really had any problems with the extremely annoying rules of this place...

Man.. Minako really gave it to me for swearing some years ago but that's about it. I never had a problem in any of the forums I've been on

if I was banned.. I'd wanna know why and why wasn't I warned. Tis all

hmm, most of the time you get banned by getting to many infractions points o_O if I remember what Ace told me 5 = banned but that may of changed o_O; anywho with each infraction you get a PM from mod/admin expaining the reason you got that infraction. So you would be 100% aware of the reason you where being banned =/

FYI infraction can vary in degrees
1-2-3 points
3 point infractions never expire from what I've been told o_O

hmm, most of the time you get banned by getting to many infractions points o_O if I remember what Ace told me 5 = banned but that may of changed o_O; anywho with each infraction you get a PM from mod/admin expaining the reason you got that infraction. So you would be 100% aware of the reason you where being banned =/

FYI infraction can vary in degrees
1-2-3 points
3 point infractions never expire from what I've been told o_O

hmm, most of the time you get banned by getting to many infractions points o_O if I remember what Ace told me 5 = banned but that may of changed o_O; anywho with each infraction you get a PM from mod/admin expaining the reason you got that infraction. So you would be 100% aware of the reason you where being banned =/

A moderator/administrator PM you a reason as to why you have recieved an infraction in a PM titled "You have recieved an Infraction from AF". In it states how many points it is worth along with a personal message stating why they have given it to you. (I think most AF users would know that as well as ,myself)

When Amray was banned he had well over '10' infraction points. After he was given 5 he was temperarily banned for five days. After his first ban it was when he had 18 infraction points when he was banned temperarily a second time. During that ban he could still PM the site administrator, this is so that a user can determine why they were banned or what not. Maybe even to apologize. After that he was permanently banned whilst still in his 2nd ban because he PM'ed something to someone that he should not have. So he was in fact actually banned three times, two of which were in eachother. He was a right git wasn't he?

Come now, there is a difference in the sort of member the two of you are. You may both get your respect from the community in different ways, but it does make something of a difference in how you might expect the administration to react.

I think that affects the answer significantly.

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